The Democratic Party Pizzaburger Theory of Electioneering is: half the electorate wants a pizza, the other half wants a burger, so we'll give them all a pizzaburger and make them all equally dissatisfied, thus winning the election:
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The 2022 midterms included enough races to start testing these theories - and, unlike traditional midterms, these races enjoyed high voter turnout, thanks to the unpopularity of GOP positions like abortion bans, book bans and anti-trans laws. Jacobin teamed up with the Center for Working-Class Politics, Yougov and the Center for Work and Democracy at ASU and analyzed those races:
Their conclusion: candidates from working-class backgrounds who campaigned on economic policies like high-quality jobs, higher minimum wages, a jobs guarantee, ending offshoring and outsourcing, building infrastructure and bringing manufacturing back to the US won with a 50% share of the vote in rural and working-class districts. Dems who didn't lost with a 35% share of the vote:
Spx for Omidyar NWK FND advised TDB “to reach out to American Compass directly for comment on the pro-worker elements they were able to advocate for related to Project 2025.”
A useful stalking horse for getting the R Party to become more pro-worker & progressive on economic policies -might be persuasive *if it weren’t for the fact that -based on Project 2025 -evidence of: anti-worker & plutocracy-friendly as any other RW think tank. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/project-2025-liberal-donors/#respond
The #RepublicanParty, a coalition between Big Business farmers and turkeys who'll vote for Christmas (Red Scare cowards, apocalyptic white nationalists, religious fanatics, etc) has fallen to its bizarre, violent radical wing, who obsessed pver policies that are irrelevant to the majority of Americans.
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The GOP fringe imposes incredible discipline on their leaders. Take all the nonsense about "woke capitalism": on the one hand, it's absurd to call union-busting, tax-dodging, worker-screwing companies "woke" (even if they sell Pride flags a couple of weeks a year).
But on the other hand? The GOP leadership have actually declared war on the biggest corporations in America, to the point that the #WSJ says that "Republicans and Big Business broke up":
@pluralistic I recently reread a bunch of Hofstadter - his work often shows the strain of having been written before the development of intersectional approaches to history but it's still important foundational stuff